I went in mostly unspoiled and man, I was just handed stinker after stinker here.
The gameplay loop is well enough, you figure out where your tools spawned and then go through the embalming checklist as hauntings progress and you find more clues as to which demon is riding which corpse so you can burn them back to hell. Cool idea!

However, major caveats ensue. The scares are usually kinda banal, and at times outright comedic.

This game contains a number of outright terrible depictions of addiction and mental illness. One of the big scary reveals is that your character takes antidepressants, and at one point you are made to go through the motions of doing heroin.

There's an interesting concept here, and certainly some budget and effort went in, but the hackneyed faith-healer nonsense underpinning a lot of it makes it feel so much cheaper than it might have otherwise been and every time I found myself in a setpiece haunting I quickly found myself just hoping I'd find an exit sooner than later.

I'm glad the devs succeeded, the effort IS on display, but I sincerely hope they've improved their scope of the world and life experience since then because man these themes are blowhole booty butt cheeks.

I went in mostly unspoiled and man, I was just handed stinker after stinker here. The gameplay loop is well enough, you figure out where your tools spawned and then go through the embalming checklist as hauntings progress and you find more clues as to which demon is riding which corpse so you can burn them back to hell. Cool idea! However, major caveats ensue. The scares are usually kinda banal, and at times outright comedic. This game contains a number of outright terrible depictions of addiction and mental illness. One of the big scary reveals is that your character takes antidepressants, and at one point you are made to go through the motions of doing heroin. There's an interesting concept here, and certainly some budget and effort went in, but the hackneyed faith-healer nonsense underpinning a lot of it makes it feel so much cheaper than it might have otherwise been and every time I found myself in a setpiece haunting I quickly found myself just hoping I'd find an exit sooner than later. I'm glad the devs succeeded, the effort IS on display, but I sincerely hope they've improved their scope of the world and life experience since then because man these themes are blowhole booty butt cheeks.